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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There were elements of the bacterial genome that were discovered that seemed to "jump around". These were called transposons, insertion elements, or what?
(a) Jumping elements.
(b) Leaping elements.
(c) Jumping genes.
(d) Leaping genes.

2. There was a gap that appeared in Barbara's list of publications. In what year did she not publish anything?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

3. To what position was Barbara McClintock elected in 1945?
(a) Secretary of the Genetics Society.
(b) Vice President of the National Academy of Science.
(c) Treasurer of the National Academy of Science.
(d) President of the Genetics Society.

4. In 1933, Barbara received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go where?
(a) Russia.
(b) Austria.
(c) China.
(d) Germany.

5. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Nebraska.

Short Answer Questions

1. The three major concerns of twentieth-century biology have been and still are what?

2. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?

3. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller quotes Einstein. He said, "To these elementary laws there leads no logical path, but only" what?

4. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"

5. When McClintock speaks about having no chance of being promoted she states that she was excluded from what?

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